03 — About

It started in a basement.

Four students, borrowed equipment and one stubborn question: why should getting older mean getting sick?

01 — Us

We're made of cells.

Trillions of them, working together. Every person is the sum of their cells' health.

02 — Time

Time leaves marks.

As cells age, so do we. We watched it happen to people we love, and it's why we started.

03 — Why

So we looked deeper.

Past the person, past the organ, all the way down to a single cell.

04 — Goal

Renewal starts small.

Make one cell young again, then the next. More healthy years, built cell by cell.

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A small basement laboratory with warm lamps and plants

Our story

Small lab.
Big question.

Ananeo began as a late-night argument between classmates about whether aging could be treated like any other condition. A professor lent us bench space and a spare incubator, and we started running experiments between lectures.

Today we're a small, focused team with three preclinical programs and a long horizon. We move fast, share what we learn and stay honest about how early this work is.

Timeline

How we got here.

2023

The question

A cell-biology class sparks a debate that refuses to end.

2024

First experiments

Borrowed bench time, a homemade assay and our first aged cell lines.

2025

Ananeo is founded

We formalise the company and move into our own basement lab.

2026

Three programs

Senolytic, epigenetic and mitochondrial work running in parallel.

2031

The goal

Our target for a first study in people, if the science holds up.

Founders

The people behind it.

Portrait of Eleni Markou

Eleni Markou

CEO · Molecular biology

Runs the senolytics bench and keeps the team pointed at the big goal.

Portrait of Nikos Andreou

Nikos Andreou

CSO · Biochemistry

Leads our mitochondria work and designed the first in-house assays.

Portrait of Daphne Leone

Daphne Leone

CTO · Computational biology

Builds the models that tell us whether a cell has really become younger.

Portrait of Yannis Kostas

Yannis Kostas

Bioengineering

Designs the delivery systems that get our molecules where they need to go.

Life in the lab

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Coffee and notebooks on a lab desk
Pipetting at the bench
Student labelling sample tubes
Petri dish held up to the light
Researcher at the microscope
Team celebrating around a laptop
Plants and a centrifuge on a windowsill
Team at a whiteboard
Sticky notes on a glass wall
Flasks in an incubator
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What we believe

01

Measure everything.

If we can't show a cell got younger, we don't claim it did.

02

Share early.

We publish notes and negative results so others don't repeat our dead ends.

03

Stay honest.

This is early research. We say so, every time.

04

Think in decades.

The payoff is long-term, so we build a team and culture that can last.

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